According to the information issued by the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy, up to October 1st this year Ukraine utilized 22.04% of its annual quota for rebars export to Russia and 45.74% of its new annual quota for cold rolled steel exports to the same destination, supplying a total of 80,002 tonnes and 96,057 tonnes respectively.…

It is reported that Ukraine steel industry reduced finished roll output 27%YoY in January to September to 19.306 million tonnes. The industry cut roll output 34%YoY in January to July and 30% in January to August, so the latest figures indicate that the severe decline in the industry is still slowing. Crude steel production plummeted…

Ukrainian Journal reported that Ukraine’s Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works one of the world’s largest producers of steel billets signed a Joint Implementation Project deal under the Kyoto Protocol with ING Bank seeking to reduce emissions of greenhouse gas. According to preliminary estimates, the project will help the company to reduce GHG emissions into the…

It is reported that the Supreme Economic Court of Ukraine has approved the decisions of the courts of first and second instance for the legal collection of about of UAH 205.59 million from the Ukrainian steelmaker ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih in favor of ferroalloys producer Zaporozhye Ferro Alloys Plant. As SteelOrbis has previously reported, the amount…

According to the preliminary data issued by the Ministry of Industrial Policy of Ukraine, in January to September 2009 Ukraine finished steel product output down by 27%YoY to 19.31 million tonnes and crude steel output down by 32% to 21.68 million tonnes. In January to September this year, Ukraine steel pipe production down by 37%…

Yenakievo Iron and Steel Works part of Metinvest Group signed the Joint Project Implementation Agreement with ING Bank NV. The Agreement stipulates service delivery in the field of the Kyoto Protocol mechanisms aiming at energy saving technologies implementation, reduction of environmental impact of the enterprise down to a technically feasible minimum and improvement of the…

It is reported that Ukrainian steel producers are going to increase slab export by 50% MoM to 55% MoM to 430,000 tonnes to 450,000 tonnes in September. Azovstal kept on August level at 250,000 tonnes due to 100% usage of slabbing capacities. Illich Steelworks also maintained August export level at 45,000 to 50,000 tonnes while…

According to the data issued by metal trading enterprise Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgical Company, in January to August 2009 Ukraine steel market capacity registered a 42.9%YoY to about 3.643 million tonnes. In August this year steel product deliveries in the Ukrainian domestic market amounted to 600,000 tonnes. Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgical Company said “Since October…

According to the data issued by the Ukrainian Association of Metal Traders, in January to August 2009 the country registered a 47.6% decrease in rolled steel consumption YoY to approximately 3,220,381 tonnes. Meanwhile, during the period in question imports of rolled products to Ukraine went down by 71.1%YoY to 403,431 tonnes. Accordingly, in January to…

It is reported that Ukrainian steel producer Ilyich Iron and Steel Works of Mariupol has announced that during the H1 of 2009 it has registered losses of UAH 700 million. Mr Vladimir Boyko CEO of Ilyich said “In the H1 of 2009 we registered minus UAH 350 million for commercial products, while according to our…

It is reported that the Russian steel producer Severstal has announced that its subsidiary Severstal Ukraine, the key activity of which is selling zinc coated, polymer coated, hot rolled and cold rolled flats and profiled iron in the Ukrainian market, has renewed its cooperation with Interpipe Scientific and Industrial Production Group the Ukrainian holding company…

Millennium capital cited Mr Shevchenko CEO of Alchevsk Steelworks as saying that the company plans to cover H1 2009 losses till the end of the year. According to the report, the company resumed pre crisis volume of production and this exactly is the base for this optimistic statement. But the situation on the market remains…

It is reported that the Ukrainian government is negotiating with Thailand for the reduction of customs import duty on steel products from Ukraine. The total volume of commodity turnover between Ukraine and Thailand in the current year up to September reached a value of USD 170.2 million of which about 90% of the Ukrainian total…

According to the data released by metal trading enterprise Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgical Company during January to August of 2009 Ukraine imports of steel products registered a decline of 63.3%YoY to 462,000 tonnes with its August imports decreasing by 13.5%MoM to 12,200 tonnes. UGMK considers that the main factors causing the decline of imports to…

It is reported that Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works named after F. Dzerzhinsky a subsidiary of the Ukrainian steelmaker Industrial Union of Donbass has started the second grade overhaul of its blast furnace No 12. As per report, the overhaul will include replacement of the blast furnace charging device and of the components of its…

It is reported that the State Property Fund of Ukraine has sold the state last stake equal to 0.1% of shares in ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih for a total of UAH 54.819 million through the Ukrainian Interbank Currency Exchange. The buyers of the shares in question were the Ukrainian investment companies Dragon Capital and Concorde Capital…

According to Mr Alexander Babikov head of the company supervisory board, Ukraine Donetsk Electrometallurgical Plant, the mini mill previously known as ISTIL intends to restart its production operations in the second half of September. Mr Babikov said in September Donetsk Electrometallurgical Plant plans to produce 63,000 tonnes of square billets of which 50,000 tonnes will…

It is reported that the increase of steel production in Ukraine during few last months has led to coke deficit. The Ukrainian Coke Association estimates the deficit at 1.4 million tones till the end of the year. The coke coal extraction decreased by 8.6%YoY to 15.19mn tones. It will take half a year for the…

Azovstal Steel Plant operating under umbrella of Metinvest Group held an ecological tree planting campaign in the Generation Park of Ordzhonikidze District in Mariupol. The campaign was held as a part of the events dedicated to the plant’s 76th anniversary. Among the participants were representatives of the city management, employees of the plant representatives of…

Khartsyzsk Pipe Plant, which is under Metinvest Group umbrella, produced 61,370 tonnes of big diameter pipes in August. In August the plant continued producing the pipes of the following diameter 1. 1,0675.9 mm 0 with external and internal anticorrosion coating 2. 1,2202.5 mm 6 with external anticorrosion coating. 3. 21,4205.7 mm and 1,4206.8 mm, 10G2FB…

Ukrainian Journal reported that Ukraine steel industry reduced finished roll output 30%YoY in January to August to 17.072 million tonne. According to the report, the industry cut roll output 34%YoY in January to July and in January to June, so the latest figures indicate that the severe decline in the industry is still slowing. (Ukrainian…